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Tryp, Should I assume you have a placeholder at 3B until Baez is ready?

And wtf was Molina running for???

I did not think about that how you can have a different roster for the 1 game playoff vs the ALDS. In a case like this where both teams had to fight down to the wire, they're obviously not going to put any starters who can't go on their roster. I guess it makes sense why both nights the managers went to their pen so early. You can have 9 guys available in your bullpen and still have an overstocked bench with pinch runners and defensive specialists.

How did the Reds get "boned" facing Liriano?

No byes, no 5th place finishers in the playoffs

I assume the big issue is pertaining to the Rockies here? That goombahism should help our end of the deal

WTF does that even mean? The sales contract limited how much Ricketts could spend on the team? I take it to mean Levine has no idea what he's [expletive] talking about It means Tom was counting on Joe dying by now. #inheritance #brokeTomRicketts

I think a good compromise is to keep the wild card as a 1-game playoff, but if the wild card team happens to have a top 2 record, they get to host a playoff series. I know baseball always uses the excuse for the world series that home sites need to be determined in advance for accommodations, but I've always considered it bs. What if the division winner with the worse record actually played in a division with 4 tough opponents while the 2nd place team with a better record got there by beating up on 3 creampuffs? I don't see the point or need to even consider this. You play the regular season to win your division. The wild card is for the teams that didn't win their divisions. I find it really unlikely that a division winner would have 4 tough division-mates and wind up with a worse record than the 2nd place team in a bad division. Divisions are an arbitrary construct.

I think a good compromise is to keep the wild card as a 1-game playoff, but if the wild card team happens to have a top 2 record, they get to host a playoff series. I know baseball always uses the excuse for the world series that home sites need to be determined in advance for accommodations, but I've always considered it bs.

What good is speed going to do us down in AA?

What refreshing post-game analysis by TBS. Olbermann asks the crew about McCutcheon saying the Pirates won because of their confidence heading in. DeRosa, Pedro, and Hayhurst all tell him it's [expletive]. Naturally Verducci says it's because the Reds confidence was "false confidence"

Votto says he never got going offensively this season. His slash line: .305 /.435/.491

More closeups on Dusty please

More closeups on Dusty please

Well, my memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure our crowds were pretty awesome in 2003 before the 8th inning of Game 6. Let Pittsburgh go through a few of those and see if they don't turn into tight-asses too Yeah, the crowds were bonkers in 2003 and 2007. It was only with 2008 where they were a-scared. I feel like by the 5th bases loaded double play in '07 the crowd had died I was there too, and that's not accurate. The crowd got silent after the HR obviously, but everyone was up and making noise just in time for Mark DeRosa to keep grounding into double plays. I was at that game 3 when Hill gave up the HR to Young on the first pitch. The crowd was dead as soon as that happened. It sucked tremendously.

The Division Series don't even start until Thursday and Friday, which means there is plenty of room to fit a 3-game series. There is no reason to let 1-game decide a "playoff" round in a sport that plays a 162 game regular season. 1. It was decided over those 162 games that you're stuck in the do or die situation. If you want a chance at a full series, win your division. 2. In the case of the AL this year, you'd have Tampa traveling from Toronto on Sunday to Arlington on Monday to Cleveland on Tuesday(then presumably) back to Tampa on Thursday, and then to Boston on Fridady. And needing to leave Monday open for tiebreakers/make-up games, you wouldn't be able to start any of the DS games on Thursday. I think you would feel differently if a 94-win Cubs team finished 2nd to the Cardinals and ended up losing the 1 game playoff to an 89-win 2nd Wild Card team. If anything, it was decided over 162 games that the Cubs were better than Team B, so why should one essentially random game decide who moves on? Sure, they could also lose a 3 game series, but that outcome would be a little easier to swallow. I've come to accept that the playoffs aren't designed to put the best teams through to the World Series. I was certainly annoyed when the '08 Cubs were swept by an inferior Dodgers team, but there's no going back at this point. I'm not going to feel less than if the 2017 Cubs make a run as the 5th best team in the NL.

Ohhhhhhh please use Marshall as a LOOGY in the 4th inning.

Well, my memory is fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure our crowds were pretty awesome in 2003 before the 8th inning of Game 6. Let Pittsburgh go through a few of those and see if they don't turn into tight-asses too Yeah, the crowds were bonkers in 2003 and 2007. It was only with 2008 where they were a-scared. I feel like by the 5th bases loaded double play in '07 the crowd had died

The Division Series don't even start until Thursday and Friday, which means there is plenty of room to fit a 3-game series. There is no reason to let 1-game decide a "playoff" round in a sport that plays a 162 game regular season. 1. It was decided over those 162 games that you're stuck in the do or die situation. If you want a chance at a full series, win your division. 2. In the case of the AL this year, you'd have Tampa traveling from Toronto on Sunday to Arlington on Monday to Cleveland on Tuesday(then presumably) back to Tampa on Thursday, and then to Boston on Fridady. And needing to leave Monday open for tiebreakers/make-up games, you wouldn't be able to start any of the DS games on Thursday.

Ernie Johnson loves him some RBI

It makes me sad for so many reasons.

Ahmad Starks was denied his hardship waiver. Should've just sexually asasaulted a girl instead.

I like B2B's bold stance that having smart people involved with your front office is a bad thing.

He's waiting for it to be an expiring contract so he can trade it for Kevin Love

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